Les C — Restaurant in Carpentras

We had high hopes about our first restaurant visit In Chateauneuf du Pape but at Les C today, it wasn’t to be. The hostess was lovely. The new waiter Simon - not so much. He didn’t seem to want to be there. We ordered 2 different glasses of local wines which were excellent but very small pours- less than 10 cl (~ 3 1/2 ounces) which was disappointing for a 15 Euro glass, even tho the wine was excellent. My husbands steak/frite was just ok. My bowl of mussels arrived not steaming, not hot, but actually cool to the touch. Though the bowl was large and deep, there was barely 20cl (1 cup) of broth in the bottom of the bowl. Maybe they forgot to add more broth? Very disappointing- I’m accustomed to a large steaming bowl of delicious broth that I can use to dip the wonderful local bread, but not today. To top it off, The waiter never asked us if our meal was ok.

Secondly, We had planned to order a bottle of one of the wines we tasted but he didn’t ask about that either. In fact he never returned to the table at all. We had to get up to ask for the check. I had actually read in other reviews about short pours at Les C and about waiter Simon rolling his eyes at a customer’s request but I didn’t take it seriously. Unfortunately, we experienced both of those complaints ourselves today. Will not return. Au...

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